The selection of the appropriate geometry and traffic control for intersections on high-speed arterial highways often requires balancing increased highway user costs with attempts to control construction costs. Providing a safe design that is cost-effective is always a primary consideration in deciding on a solution. Another issue is that one form of intersection and traffic control may be optimal during peak traffic times on an average day but may not have sufficient capacity for extreme peak times such as those for events or on recreational routes. Alternatively, those same controls can cause needless delay when traffic is lighter. Examples include traffic signals that operate 24 h/day and roundabouts that require all traffic to slow dramatically, regardless of the amount of conflicting traffic. This study presents a group of new alternative intersection designs designated as reduced-conflict intersections. This study describes those designs and their associated traffic control, which consists of a demand-based traffic signal system. This study then presents the results of a comparative analysis of this new type of intersection along with other designs, including a conventional intersection with signal control, two forms of roundabouts, and the super street intersection. The results of the study show that the reduced-conflict intersection may be an effective addition to the toolbox of intersection designs.


This paper,used literature survey and video statistical analysis method,compared the matches between Chinese Men' s Team and the top four teams,Brazil,Italy,Serbia and Montenegro,and the U.S.A.Also the comparing Chinese team with their main rivals in Asia(Japan and South Korea)was made.The results showed that in this session of volleyball World Cup,Chinese Men' s Team revealed much inferiority to the world top teams.They are shown in many aspects:backward tactics,vague guideline and lack of scientific and high-tech training.Based on the research,the author attempted to sum up the experience and lessons and help Chinese Team realize their strong and weak points in order to create a brilliant future.


The use of gypsum and fly ash is very common in construction of Indonesia. Both of these materials are used because of Indonesia's rich natural potential. Gypsum was chosen because it has the same chemical composition as cement, which is calcium (Ca), while type C fly ash also shows the same content. By combining the two materials, the researchers tried to study their impact on the compressive strength of mortar. The proportion of cement was reduced from 100%, 50%, 25%, and 0%, while the rest was replaced by a combination of gypsum and type C fly ash. Then, the samples were tested at the age of 7 and 14 days to see the compressive strength performance on early days of hardening. Samples with no substituent composition showed the highest compressive strength of 23.3 MPa, then it continued to decrease as the cement mixture became less, until the lowest was 7 MPa in samples composed only of gypsum and fly ash. There was a significant increase in performance of sample 4 which only contained 25% cement, but it was indicated that the cause was not due to composition, but other factors such as water ratio and compaction.
Keywords: gypsum, type C fly ash, mortar.


The subjects are the total of 203 members in the body-built center We set up a comprehensive evaluation system for body composition,figure,body enginery and diathesis with consulting experts method and hierarchic cluster analysis method


In the design of a pattern classifier,it is difficult or impossible to acquire all the necessary essential attributes for precise classification,so both the fuzzy uncertainty and rough uncertainty coexist in classification. A FRMFN(Fuzzy-Rough Membership Function Neural Network) was designed,based on fuzzy-rough set theory.The FRMFN integrated the ability to process fuzzy and rough information.The test results of classification for infrared band combination image of Canada Norman Wells territories indicated that the FRMFN had better classification precision than RBF network and had the same merit of quick learning as RBF network.


Accomplishments of Task 2 of this project are presented. Task 2 has resulted in the development and implementation of three new unit operations in the computer program ASPEN. The first is a multi-phase flash algorithm. The second is a new, sophisticated venturi model, and the third is a solid/liquid separator (clarifier/thickener) model. The flash algorithm considers one organic liquid, one aqueous liquid, one vapor, and any number of precipitated solid phases. However, the algorithm only includes temperature and vapor fraction specified options. We recommend that the new flash algorithm be used in updating previous simulations conducted for systems containing electrolytes. One possibility would be upgrading portions of the Great Plains Gasification Project Simulations made with ASPEN. The new ASPEN venturi model is a sophisticated one with simultaneous calculation of heat, mass, and momentum transfer. The new ASPEN solid/liquid separator model can perform thickening and/or clarification calculations in eithert the design or simulation modes.


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A research guide that provides a tour through USA.gov. USA.gov is the official web portal of the United States federal government. Contact information for federal, state, and local government agencies; government-related programs; and elected officials.


The academia has a dispute over the question of Liu Xie's life experience,but there has not yet been a(final) conclusion.Because of the life materials of Liu Xie are not particular and explicit,and the different records of The Chronicle of Liang Dynasty,The Chronicle of Song Dynasty and The History of Nan Dynasty,researchers formed different opinions toward the authenticity of the historical data and its relevant life experience of Liu Xie.This text examines these materials one by one from historiography aspects,hoping to lend some assistance to the researchers of "Wen Xin Diao Long".


Abstract A judicious use of HPLC allows to simplify the synthetic approach of an (oligo)nucleotide. As an example, is reported a preparation of an antiviral (3′-5′)dinucleotide with simultaneous isolation of its (3′-3′) isomer.


Update discusses results of several research projects as well as the status of the State Department of Zgriculture's rulemaking to restrict some uses of clopyralid.


Introduction: Five Theses on the History of Hollywood 1. Before Hollywood 2. The Studio System 3. Sound and the Production Code 4. Hollywood at War 5. The Blacklist and Cold War 6. The New Hollywood 7. Home Video and Indiewood 8. Digital Cinema and the Internet


In medical education, human patient simulators, or manikins, are a well established method of teaching medical skills. The current state of the art manikins are limited in their functions by a fixed number of in-built sensors and actuators that control the manikin behaviors and responses. We describe how applying standard techniques from the fields of Virtual and Mixed Reality can significantly expand manikin functionality, at relatively low costs. We describe a working prototype of a Mixed Reality Manikin, with technical implementation details and one complete scenario. Also, we discuss a number of extensions and applications of our technique.


The traits related to early maturity in upland cotton are quantitative traits usually affected by multiple genes and environments,it is difficult to dissect their genetic basis.However,both linkage mapping and association analysis provide new tools toward interpreting the gene sources of complex traits.In this study,two F2 mapping populations were constructed by using upland genetic standard line TM-1 as male to cross with female parents Xinluzao 8 and Xinluzao 10,respectively.Thirty-seven QTL for traits related to early maturity were identified by the composite interval mapping(CIM) method of Win QTLCart 2.5 in the F2 –F2:3 of the two mapping populations.Positive alleles at these loci were mostly from early maturity ancestor 611-B and King cotton,respectively.In addition,most of the traits were controlled by different genes in the two sets of gene pools,showing primarily additive effects.Furthermore,in a natural population consisting of 43 different Upland cotton cultivars,54 genetic loci significantly associated with early maturity related traits were detected through genome-wide association analysis,showing great comparability with the linkage mapping results.Our study provided insights into the genetic bases of early maturity and laid a foundation for early maturity gene pyramiding and marker-assisted selection of upland cotton.


In order to seek various relationships among many design parameters employed in the design of the axial-flow fans the program which generates acoustic spectrum has been developed and its validity verified. Outputs of the program, with other outputs from a formerly developed performance prediction program, have been used to form a multi-objective function, for which an optimal design process was carried out. The present analysis shows that overall noise level and efficiency has contrasting trends, and the chord length turns out to be the most critical design variable. In the chosen design case of requirements Q=2000㎡/min, ΔPs=67㎜Aq, D=1.4m, the chord length of 0.2059m minimizes the overall noise level, while chord length of 0.1254m maximizes the efficiency. The resulting chord length in the balanced optimization is 0.1809m.


To reflect the value of the project, the project should be evaluated by comprehensive satisfaction of the whole lifetime of the project stakeholder. On the basis of qualitative analysis, when determining the relevant parameter values, with the consideration of that the value of indicators showing gray characteristic, the stakeholders' satisfaction of the construction project is comprehensively evaluated by the method of the gray interval number of indexes and the constructive method of grey theory and rough set theory. Combined with the practical calculation, it is proved that this model can be used as the satisfaction evaluation method for the construction project.


Background: Periodontitis is an infectious disease of the oral cavity involving the inflammation of the sustaining tissues of teeth. Anti-oxidant has an important role in protection of host against inflammation and infection. Hence, this study evaluated the salivary total anti-oxidant capacity in chronic periodontitis patients and healthy patients. Methods: A total of 40 patients were divided into 2 groups. Group 1 (healthy) consisted of 20 individuals with healthy gingiva of probing depth ≤3mm, GI =<1, PI=<1 and CAL=0 and Group 2 (chronic periodontitis) consisted of 20 individuals who had signs of clinical inflammation and a diagnosis of CP with PPD ≥ 5 mm, GI >1, PI> 1and CAL≥ 3mm. Whole saliva were collected and samples were analyzed for total anti-oxidant capacity (TAOC). The results were analyzed by student t test and Mann– Whitney analysis. Results: The result revealed that the total anti-oxidant capacity of saliva in the healthy group had significantly higher levels than periodontitis group. Conclusion: The level of total anti-oxidant capacity was lower in the saliva of chronic periodontitis patients, which results in early diagnosis and treatment of periodontitis.


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Block copolymer worm stabilization via cross-linking during polymerization-induced self-assembly (PISA) is challenging. This is because block copolymer worms typically occupy a narrow regime in the phase diagram, and in situ cross-linking may hinder a morphological transition from sphere to worm. In this work, in situ cross-linking of block copolymer worms during PISA was studied using three different asymmetric cross-linkers, each bearing a pair of double bonds with different reactivities. Specifically, ethanolic PISA syntheses targeting poly(2-(dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate)-b-poly(benzyl methacrylate) diblock copolymer worms were investigated in the presence of vinyl methacrylate, allyl methacrylate, or 4-allyloxybenzyl methacrylate. The copolymerizations of benzyl methacrylate with the asymmetric cross-linkers underwent progressive branching to finally cross-linking of the block copolymer worms. While all the three asymmetric cross-linkers were able to cross-link worms, 4-allyloxybenzyl methacrylat...


(57) Abstract: composition in weight percent, carbon 0.6 to 1.1, silicon 1.5 to 2.0, manganese 1.8 to 4.0, chromium 1.2 to 1.4, nickel 0 to 3, molybdenum 0.2 to 0.5, vanadium 0.1 to 0.2, the balance except for the chance of impurities bainite mainly of steel is iron.


This paper presents a summary of developments in Austronesian linguistics during the period 1991–2002. The aim is to introduce a general linguistic public to the synchronic study of Austronesian languages. General typological characteristics and interesting features of Austronesian phonology, lexicons, morphology and syntax are discussed, followed by a summary of how these characteristics, or issues related to them, have featured in recent theoretical debates. The paper also summarises work on Austronesian sociolinguistics, speech levels, language shift and mixed languages. # 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.


Rebar is the primary support in lateral infrastructures such as a bridge superstructure (bridge deck) and substructures such as an abutment and pier where geometric measurements are essential elements. Human inspectors mainly utilize hand-held and non-destructive measurement devices such as radar to measure various parameters. However, due to radar's dependency on concrete dielectric properties, electromagnetic induction (EMI) can be an alternative for measurements on highly moisture structures, especially bridge piers. In this study, an EMI-based localization device is developed that can be used for aerial infrastructure inspection. Likewise, a neural network model was developed, and gathered data were trained using a regression tool to characterize the system's behavior. Specifically, this study applied the circular mapping concept that makes it significant and suitable for pier rebar scanning baseline; a direct measurement approach was used for B-scan. The system applied the time-domain method for the self-induced magnetic signal with the HMC5883L magnetometer that produced EMI data coherently combined with a known parameter such as rebar diameter and depth. Using the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm for neural network training, the system shows a high correlation between the input and output with an overall regression R equivalent to 0.9964.


Objective To study ralationship between hepatocellular apoptosis and glycogen contents during hepatic cold preservation reperfusion and its mechanism.Methods Based on the model of three groups of rabbit livers with significant difference of hepatocellular glycogen contents (group A: 15.42± 2.60; group B: 51.83±6.61; group C: 63.22±5.84),hepatocellular apoptosis and levels of intracellular i 2+ of hepatic parenchymal cells (HPCs) were observed during cold preservation reperfusion of the three groups of livers.Results Apoptotic HPCs were obviously found in 60 min reperfusing livers subsequent to 9 h cold storage,and there was significant difference in the numbers of apoptotic HPCs among all the groups (group A:17.58±3.64,group B:12.61±2.95,group C:8.27±2.60).At the same time,there also was significant difference in the levels of intracellular i 2+ of HPCs among three groups (group A:379.18±50.26,group B:331.59±43.56,group C:281.47±40.12).Conclusion Intracellular abundant glycogen may significantly depress hepatocellular apoptosis during hepatic cold preservation reperfusion,which might be contributed to the relative intact Ca 2+ ATPase function and stable Ca 2+ equilibrium in the liver with the abundant glycogen.


Gold was central to the South African state from the outset. Its revenues sustained the pariah apartheid regime after 1961 in the face of economic sanctions and military spending. At that time, a regulatory regime arose that blurred the distance needed between regulator and regulatee. Water-related liabilities such as acid mine drainage were nationalized, burdening the post-1994 democratic government. Legal reform has sought to internalize those historic externalities through the application of the greenfields logic of global best practice. The unintended consequence is disinvestment, thereby hastening the nationalizing of all remaining liability. A new approach is needed.


Cytomegalovirus retinitis is the most common cause of ocular disorders in patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS); it is now thought that as many as 40% of patients with AIDS develop this potentially devastating opportunistic infection [1]. Because of the rapid expansion of the AIDS epidemic, retina specialists, general ophthalmologists, and primary care physicians commonly face the challenge of treating cytomegalovirus retinitis. The standard of care for the treatment of cytomegalovirus retinitis is intravenous therapy with ganciclovir [2, 3] or foscarnet [4, 5]. Initial treatment with these drugs involves high-dose induction therapy for 2 to 4 weeks, followed by lower-dose maintenance therapy, which must be given indefinitely. These therapies are associated with many potential problems. First, the rate of reactivation and progression of retinitis is high; because the median time to progression is approximately 8 weeks, multiple inductions are required [6]. Reactivation presumably occurs because the virus develops some degree of drug resistance. Subsequent reactivations occur more rapidly than the initial one [6], and responses to later treatment are less favorable. Combination intravenous therapy with both foscarnet and ganciclovir may be effective for these cases of clinically resistant retinitis, but the treatment is time consuming for the patient and complex to administer [7, 8]. Second, ganciclovir and foscarnet are given systemically and over the long term and have serious potential side effects, most notably bone marrow suppression with ganciclovir [9] and renal toxicity with foscarnet [4, 5, 10]. Finally, the need for a permanent indwelling intravenous catheter is a major problem because of the deleterious effects of the catheter on the patient's quality of life and because of the potential medical complications, including sepsis [4]. All of these problems have led to the development of local (nonsystemic) therapies for cytomegalovirus retinitis. Serial intravitreous injections of ganciclovir have been shown to be effective, but they can be difficult to tolerate as sole therapy because they must be given at least once a week [11, 12]. Furthermore, the time to reactivation and progression with this method is 8 weeks, which is similar to the time with intravenous therapy [12]. Foscarnet has also been given in intravitreous injections, but weekly injections are required [13]. A sustained-release intravitreous ganciclovir implant has recently been shown to be effective as sole therapy for cytomegalovirus retinitis [14, 15]. The reported median time to progression was 226 days, compared with 15 days for untreated disease [14]. Because the patients in that study had recently received a diagnosis, it is not clear whether the implant will be as effective for reactivated retinitis. This treatment also requires surgical vitrectomy and may increase the rate of early retinal detachment. Moreover, the investigators [14] reported that five (of seven) retinal detachments occurred 30 to 64 days after vitrectomy. This period is shorter than the time to retinal detachment seen with intravenous therapy; with the ganciclovir implant, fewer than 10% of retinal detachments occur within the first 4 months [16]. Cidofovir is a relatively new nucleoside analogue that is highly active against cytomegalovirus [17-19]. In previous studies [20, 21], we showed that a single intravitreous injection of 20 g of cidofovir is highly effective in healing cytomegalovirus retinitis in patients with AIDS. We did the current prospective study to further examine the efficacy and safety of multiple intravitreous injections of cidofovir as sole long-term maintenance therapy for cytomegalovirus retinitis in patients with AIDS. Because none of the eyes in the previous studies showed progression earlier than 35 days after a single injection, we decided that maintenance injections should be given every 5 to 6 weeks. Methods All patients were seen at the University of California, San Diego, AIDS Ocular Research Unit, which is a tertiary referral center for patients with retinal complications of AIDS. Twenty-two patients were enrolled in a prospective, nonrandomized, consecutive case series between April 1994 and January 1995. Thirty-two eyes were affected. Included patients had to have AIDS, be at least 18 years of age, have cytomegalovirus retinitis in at least one eye, and have signed an informed consent form approved by the institutional review board. Two groups of patients were analyzed. Group A consisted of patients with newly diagnosed cytomegalovirus retinitis; group B consisted of patients who had previously received intravenous systemic therapy for the disease and had been switched to intra vitreous cidofovir because of clinical resistance, intolerance, or preference. Therapy with all systemic or local anticytomegalovirus medications (other than intravitreous cidofovir) was discontinued before the beginning of the study period. Patients were allowed to receive systemic therapy if their primary care physician believed that extraocular cytomegalovirus infection was developing during the study. Those patients would then be censored at that point. Exclusion criteria were evidence of extraocular cytomegalovirus infection, the presence of silicone oil vitreous substitute in the affected eye, or a history of an unrelated inflammatory ocular condition (for example, uveitis). All 22 patients were treated until they reached one of the following end points: death (5 patients [23%]), development of extraocular cytomegalovirus infection (2 patients [9%]), development of serious illness precluding adequate compliance with treatment (3 patients [14%]), detachment of the retina of the affected eye (1 patient [4%]), occurrence of substantial complications attributed to treatment (2 patients [9%]), poor compliance (1 patient [4%]), or the end of the study period (8 patients [36%]). No patients were lost to follow-up. For the purposes of follow-up, the beginning of the study period was considered to be the day of the first cidofovir injection. Baseline and follow-up examinations included standardized Early Treatment for Diabetic Retinopathy Study (ETDRS) visual acuity, slit-lamp biomicroscopy, intraocular pressure measurement, indirect ophthalmoscopy of dilated pupils with detailed fundus drawing, and wide-angle fundus photography. Eyes were examined at 2-week intervals. Healing of retinitis was defined as resolution of retinal opacification, development of a scar, and cessation of progression. Reactivation and progression were determined clinically and by masked retrospective review of fundus photographs on the basis of the criteria described by the Studies of the Ocular Complications of AIDS Research Group [22]: 750 m of border progression or the appearance of a new lesion at least 750 m in diameter. Retinal photographs from all patients seen on a particular day were examined retrospectively by at least two investigators who had no knowledge of the patient's treatment protocol (for example, intravenous therapy, ganciclovir implantation, and intravitreous cidofovir). When the investigators' review of photographs disagreed with the clinical analysis of that day, the photographic reading was accepted. Intravitreous injections were given every 5 to 6 weeks. Sterile cidofovir was synthesized as described elsewhere [19]. All injections were given systematically. With a lid speculum and topical anesthesia, povidone-iodine solution was used to clean the conjunctiva and lids. Lidocaine 2%, with epinephrine 1:1000, was injected subconjunctivally in the inferotemporal or supertemporal quadrant and was followed by a trans pars plana midvitreous injection of 20 g of cidofovir in 0.1-mL normal saline given using a 30-gauge or a 28.5-gauge needle. Oral probenecid was given as prophylaxis to patients who had no known substantial allergy to sulfa medications (2 g given 3 hours before injection and 1 g given 2 hours and 8 hours after injection). Probenecid is known to competitively inhibit anion transport across epithelial barriers and has reduced renal toxicity in patients receiving intravenous cidofovir by decreasing renal tubular secretion of cidofovir ([23, 24], Gilead Sciences Investigators Brochure). We used probenecid in our patients in a similar way in an effort to decrease uptake of cidofovir into the ciliary body epithelium, where intraocular pressure may be adversely affected [20, 21]. In addition, prophylactic use of topical Polysporin Ointment (Glaxo Wellcome, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) (twice daily for 3 days), topical 1% cyclopentolate (twice daily for 7 to 10 days), and topical 1% prednisolone acetate (four times daily for 7 to 10 days) was included in the care of all patients after injection. The primary outcome measure was time to reactivation and progression of retinitis. Other outcome measures were visual acuity, response to initial treatment with intravitreous cidofovir, development of extraocular cytomegalovirus infection, involvement of the other eye in patients who began with unilateral retinitis, retinal detachment, survival, and ocular complications of treatment (including reactions or adverse events attributed to probenecid). Statistical analysis included Kaplan-Meier estimates of the time to a particular outcome measure (such as progression, disease in the other eye, and death). We used chi-square analysis to calculate P values and calculated 95% CIs using the normal approximation. Results Twenty-one of the 22 patients (95%) were men, and the mean age was 37.7 years (range, 27 to 57 years). Group A consisted of 15 eyes (47%; 11 patients) in which intravitreous cidofovir was given as the initial therapy for active cytomegalovirus retinitis. Group B consisted of 17 eyes (53%; 11 patients); patients in this group had previously received intravenous therapy with ganciclovir or foscarnet or both. The disease in 8 of t


Burgess [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 70, 715–726 (1981)] simulated an active noise reduction system in a duct. This system utilized a version of the filtered‐x LMS algorithm to obtain noise reduction over a wide bandwidth. A similar system has been implemented using the TMS‐32020 signal processing chip on a PC expansion board. In the filtered‐x LMS algorithm, the reference signal must be filtered by the transfer function between the transversal filter output and the error signal input in order to maintain stability of the LMS weight update. In our system, this transfer function is calculated from the measured response to a maximum length sequence generated by the noise reduction system itself. Performance results are given for this system in a test setup. Some issues regarding practical implementation of this algorithm in fixed point arithmetic will also be discussed.


An increase in the necessity for clean and renewable energy leads to the production of hydrogen by several methods. Splitting of water by electrolysis is catching up to be a productive method to produce pure hydrogen with low cost and high efficiency using highly active non‐noble metal electrocatalysts. MoS2 has been widely studied for energy conservation devices for its 2D layered structure, excellent electronic conductivity, and high specific surface area. Incorporating transition metals (Co or Ni) will alter the intrinsic characteristic of MoS2 by enhancing its electrocatalytic property for hydrogen evolution reaction. Hence MoS2, CoMoS2, Co0.5MoS2 and a composite of Co0.5MoS2 with nitrogen sulfur doped graphene oxide were prepared by a facile hydrothermal method. Better performance was observed for the composite of Co0.5MoS2 with N, S‐rGO compared to other prepared catalysts with a low onset potential of 85 mV, overpotential (at 10 mA/cm2) of 178 mV and Tafel slope of 63.8 mV/dec. Further, the stability of the catalyst evaluated by chronoamperometric analysis demonstrated steady electrochemical performance for 12 hours.


A practically-realizable micro-Doppler experiment is designed, conducted, and demonstrated. The cost-effective experimental setup is composed of common signal generator, spectrum analyzer, transmitting and receiving antennas, and a metallic rod rotated via a driving stepper motor to induce micro-Doppler effect. For providing different micro- Doppler features, different revolution per minute (RPM) of the rod can be chosen and adjusted. The operating frequency is chosen in S band for long-range radar applications. To consider the demand of real-time computation for national defense purpose, two fast computed algorithms to correctly extract the micro-Doppler feature of a scattered target are proposed and illustrated by clear physical insight. The micro-Doppler effect of cross-polarized scattered signal is also investigated and the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed algorithms are further verified. The experimental result shows that the deviation between theory and measurement is not more than 1 %.


In this paper we discuss the sample average approximation (SAA) method for a class of stochastic programs with nonsmooth equality constraints. We derive a uniform Strong Law of Large Numbers for random compact set-valued mappings and use it to investigate the convergence of Karush-Kuhn-Tucker points of SAA programs as the sample size increases. We also study the exponential convergence of global minimizers of the SAA problems to their counterparts of the true problem. The convergence analysis is extended to a smoothed SAA program. Finally, we apply the established results to a class of stochastic mathematical programs with complementarity constraints and report some preliminary numerical test results.


We evaluate the static and dynamic electronic longitudinal polarizability and first hyperpolarizability of infinite poly-water by using the same geometry, the same orientation and the same basis set as Otto et al. but by applying the finite oligomer technique. We show that for the first hyperpolarizability, the polymeric values per unit cell calculated by Otto et al. are inconsistent by several orders of magnitude with respect to the infinite oligomer limit.


1. Targownik LE. Letter: non-breaking news! High-dose PPIs likely do not cause fractures. Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2018;47:137. 2. Sugiyama T. Letter: proton pump inhibitor use and fracture risk. Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2018;47:449-450. 3. Harding BN, Weiss NS, Walker RL, Larson EB, Dublin S. Proton pump inhibitor use and the risk of fractures among an older adult cohort. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2008; https://doi.org/10.1002/ pds.4406 4. Kumar S, Drake MT, Schleck CD, et al. Incidence and predictors of osteoporotic fractures in patients with Barrett's oesophagus: a population-based nested case-control study. Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2017;46:1094-1102. 5. Zirk-Sadowski J, Masoli JA, Strain WD, et al. Proton-pump inhibitors and fragility fractures in vulnerable older patients. Am J Gastroenterol. 2017;112:520-523. 6. Wang L, Li M, Cao Y, et al. Proton pump inhibitors and the risk for fracture at specific sites: data mining of the FDA adverse event reporting system. Sci Rep. 2017;7:5527. 7. Lin SM, Yang SH, Liang CC, Huang HK. Proton pump inhibitor use and the risk of osteoporosis and fracture in stroke patients: a population-based cohort study. Osteoporos Int. 2018;29:153-162. 8. Lenihan CR, Sukumaran Nair S, Vangala C, Ramanathan V, MontezRath ME, Winkelmayer WC. Proton pump inhibitor use and risk of hip fracture in kidney transplant recipients. Am J Kidney Dis. 2017;69:595-601. 9. Torvinen-Kiiskinen S, Tolppanen AM, Koponen M, et al. Proton pump inhibitor use and risk of hip fractures among community-dwelling persons with Alzheimer's disease – a nested case-control study. Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2018;47:1135-1142. 10. Seppala LJ, van de Glind EMM, Daams JG, et al. Fall-risk-increasing drugs: a systematic review and meta-analysis: III. Others. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2018; doi:10.1016/j.jamda.2017.12.099


A gas generating grain has a water-based particulate booster coating thereon. The coating comprises an alkali metal azide, a water-soluble inorganic oxidizer in approximately a stoichiometric ratio of oxidizer to azide, and a nucleating amount of a small particle size metal oxide. The inorganic oxidizer is potassium perchlorate. A preferred metal oxide is selected from the group consisting of iron oxide, nickel oxide and aluminum oxide. The coating is applied to the grain from a water slurry and dried.


Purpose:Base on "beginner-veteran-expect" research paradigm,this paper made a comparative analysis on attention characteristic of different sports level table-tennis athletes,aimed at discovering the law of table-tennis athletes' attention development and the core indictors of attention of table-tennis expert.Methods:This paper tested 140 table-tennis athletes' attention ability(effective number 132:male 80,female 52),by the Attention Test prepared by Yin Heng-chan from Beijing Normal University.Result:On attention allocation and span,a gradual upward trend was presented between the beginners,veterans and expert of table-tennis,but the difference between the groups was not significant(P0.05);On the stable and shifts of attention,expert group was better significantly than the beginner and veteran group.Conclusions:Concentration and stability and stability and shifts and allocation of attention may be key indicators of the special selection and training monitoring.


In this paper we show how trading rules can generate excess volatility in the exchange rate through repeated entry and exit of currency "bears" and "bulls". This is something of a caricature: but it allows us to show that official action can have self-ful.lling e¤ects as market composition shifts in ways that support official stabilization. Intervention if and when the rate moves outside what Williamson has labelled "monitoring bands" can reduce market volatility as the effect of the policy is to select endogenously traders from the market whose expectations match official intervention.


Aim . The haemodynamics of patients with diabetes mellitus 2 during acute ischaemic stroke and their connection with the recovery of neurological deficit has been inadequately studied. Materials and Methods . We studied the blood pressure dynamics of 183 patients with mild-to-moderate acute ischaemic stroke receiving antihypertensive therapy, depending on whether or not they had type 2 diabetes mellitus. Results . In patients with diabetes, high blood pressure persisted during the first week, mainly because of the diastolic index, and they had a more rapid decline in blood pressure in the second week than those without diabetes. However, reaching the target blood pressure of <160/100 mmHg was faster in patients with diabetes, regardless of the intensity of antihypertensive therapy. Although diabetes significantly correlated with the efficiency of recovery of neurological deficit, it also showed a tendency to frequent functional impairment in patients with diabetes than those without diabetes. Conclusions . The results suggest that patients with diabetes and hypertension require less aggressive treatment, particularly in the second week of hospitalization. This may affect the efficiency of recovery of functional deficits. Further study of blood pressure dynamics and their relation to functional recovery of neurological deficit is required during the acute period after an ischaemic stroke in patients with diabetes.


Cure is the overriding goal in the treatment of aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, because it is possible in a proportion of patients and because survival is typically short otherwise. Early studies with the cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, prenisone (CHOP) regimen showed that long-term remission could be achieved, but in fewer than half of unselected patients, predominantly with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. Subsequent regimens, designed more in accordance with principles of nonoverlapping toxicity and presumed noncross resistance than to achieve true treatment intensification, proved to be more toxic but not more effective than CHOP [1]. It had become clear that significant improvement in the cure rate for aggressive lymphoma could not be achieved by re-arranging a limited number of drugs into different regimens, although dose escalation held some promise [2,3]. The addition of a new and different drug, rituximab, however, has resulted in an absolute increase in durable complete remissions of about 15%, with negligible additional toxicity [4]. Rituximab-cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, prenisone (R-CHOP) is currently the most widely used initial therapy for aggressive lymphomas. More recent attempts at modifying the CHOP regimen, such as shortening the cycle length from three to two weeks, or the addition of etoposide, have resulted in small incremental improvements over CHOP, which may or may not be applicable to R-CHOP [5].


Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing () has emerged as a modulation scheme that can achieve high data rates over frequency selective fading channel by efficiently handling multipath effects. This paper proposes receiver design for space-time block coded transmission over frequency selective time-variant channels. Joint channel and data recovery are performed at the receiver by utilizing the expectation-maximization () algorithm. It makes collective use of the data constraints (pilots, cyclic prefix, the finite alphabet constraint, and space-time block coding) and channel constraints (finite delay spread, frequency and time correlation, and transmit and receive correlation) to implement an effective receiver. The channel estimation part of the receiver boils down to an -based forward-backward Kalman filter. A forward-only Kalman filter is also proposed to avoid the latency involved in estimation. Simulation results show that the proposed receiver outperforms other least-squares-based iterative receivers.


INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................. 1519 I. THE MORAL RIGHTS CODE ................................................................ 1523 II. REDRESSING THE AUTHOR ................................................................ 1528 A. Spiritual Childs, Textual Integrity, and Giftedness ................... 1528 B. Author-as-Steward ..................................................................... 1534 C. Authors, Ownership, and Originality ........................................ 1535 III. BLACKSTONIAN MORAL RIGHTS ....................................................... 1541 IV. THIN MORAL RIGHTS ........................................................................ 1544 A. The Construction of the Authorial Self ...................................... 1544 B. Lockean Authorial Selves .......................................................... 1548 V. DISCLAIMERS, WAIVERS, AND DURATION ........................................ 1555 A. Moral Rights Enclosure ............................................................. 1555 B. Public Rights, Private Truth, and "Strange Bedfellows" .......... 1561 CONCLUSION ................................................................................................. 1567


Herein, ferroelectric Ti‐doped BiFeO3 (BFTO) heterojunction photovoltaic (PV) cells are realized for underwater PV applications. In the heterostructure, NiO functions as a transparent wide‐bandgap (3.2 eV) hole transport layer (HTL), whereas BFTO is the visible energy harvester and the highly conductive WS2 behaves as the electron transport layer (ETL). The multijunction PV device with a cell area of 1cm2 revealed a current density (JSC) and an open‐circuit voltage (VOC) of 1.90 mA/cm2 and 1.20 V, respectively, under ambient conditions (before submerging into water). Subsequently, the polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)‐encapsulated Ag/NiO/BFTO/WS2/ITO PV device was investigated for underwater solar energy harvesting in a shallow tank. For a comparative analysis, the mono‐junction NiO/BFTO and BFTO/WS2 PVs were also evaluated. The results indicated a steady decrease in the efficacy and power density of the cell with depth, and the heterojunction PV has outperformed the single‐junction PVs. As there are spectral variations with increase in depth, the heterostructure seem to have the potential to absorb the overall spectrum as NiO being transparent transmits high energy UV radiations into the device, while BFTO and WS2 layers absorb the visible and NIR spectrum. Therefore, the device though submerged can capture the solar energy efficiently with minimal losses in terms of spectrum and function efficiently. These results establish that the ferroelectric nano‐heterostructured PV devices can be utilized as a power generating source for various low‐power marine‐based sensing applications.


In recent years, the RapidSmith CAD tool [1] has been used with ISE to create custom CAD tools targeting Xilinx FPGAs. This tool flow was based on the Xilinx Design Language (XDL), a human-readable representation of a netlist that contains placement and routing information. The XDL interface also provided device representation files (XDLRC files), detailing the available resources of a given FPGA part. Using RapidSmith, a Xilinx design could be exported out of ISE at any stage of the design flow, manipulated in RapidSmith (logic modification, place, or route), and imported back into ISE to complete the remainder of implementation.


Loher, H . , & Lampel , G . [ Div. Ent . , Inst . Zoo! . , Univ. , CH1 700 Freiburg ; Switzerland ] : About Morph Determination in the Coltsfoot Aphid Capitophorus similis (Homoptera : Aphididae) . Entomo! . Gener. 9 ( 3 ) 1 5 5 1 7 5 ; Stuttgart 1 9 84 . [Article ] . In order to find out which factors might control the differentiation of various morphs of Capitophorus similis Van der Goot 1 9 1 5 , the animals were held in an environmental chamber under controlled constant or changing photoperiods . Some of the animals were fed on an artificial diet . In a first set of experiments animals were reared on coltsfoot ( Tussilago farfara L . ) under long day (L : D = 1 6 : 8 ) or short day (L : D = 8 : 1 6 ) conditions at 1 1 ° , 1 5 ° and 1 9 °C. A second experimental set involved rearing the aphids under changing photoperiods and temperatures (L = 8 or 1 6 , I I ° oder 1 9 °C) . Under constant long day conditions the formation of sexual 99 was prevented at all temperatures , while 00 were formed at low and intermediate temperatures ( I I ° and 1 5 ° ) . Under constant short day conditions , however, both sexual morphs appeared at al l temperatures , although high temperature ( 1 9° ) largely suppressed the short day effect . The suppression o f sexual 9 formation by high temperature was particularely strong. The percentage of oviparous 99 increased with decreasing temperature . 00 were formed most frequently at 1 5 ° in both types of photoperiods . The experiments with changing photoperiods proved , that for the determination of sexual 99 a continued exposure of the grandmothers to short day conditions is necessary. In our experiments the time required was from the L I instar to the reproduction phase of the imago . This determination is irreversible . The transfer of the determined gynoparae (as larvae or adults) back into long day conditions induced no change . They never produced viviparae . For thp. determination of the 00 also a shorter exposure (of the mothers) to short day conditions IS efficien t . Prolongated exposure increases the male rate . C. similis could be reared on an artificial diet for 2 % generations , that means to the L3 instar of the F2 generation . Under short day conditions and low temperature (L = 8 , 1 1 °C) only gynoparous and sexual forms were produced . It thus appears that t h e photo period and temperature play a dominant role in the programming of the sexual morph determination .


This paper is an attempt to answer two basic questions about people engaged in welfare work. Why do they choose this work? Why do they make it political work? These are questions which increasingly need to be answered as a greater number of work opportunities are opened up in the welfare field, and as the practice of welfare work becomes more and more a political act, undertaken within the context of an increased politicization of welfare issues.


This was the last of three companion cruises designed to provide broad-scale coverage of seasonal shelf conditions occurring between the April and October investigations undertaken aboard ATLANTIS II cruises 99 and 104.


At present, the 3-D IC integration utilizes Through Silicon Vias (TSV's) and it increased tremendous energy. The structure of the TSV composed of Cu, isolating liner and the silicon substrate. The isolating liner is encompassed signal TSV to stay away from signal leakage from TSV to the silicon substrate. In the conventional TSV structures, Sio2 is utilized as an isolating liner on account of its material compatibility with thesilicon substrate. To contrast to that several researchers had reported the issues of Sio2. Due to the high dielectric constant to such an extent that it brings about increasing of delay. Subsequently, Sio2 is not appropriate for elite applications. In this paper, we utilized polymer liner as isolating liner in place of Sio2. We simulated the performance analysis for both conventional and proposed TSV structures by varying radius and height of TSV. The proposed TSV structure simulation shows better results compared to conventional TSV structure.


Fake braces are currently an epidemic in this country with many wearers reported of complications due to poor quality fake products and treatment by unqualified personnel. The purpose of this study was to investigate the release of metal ions from standard and fake orthodontic braces immersed in artificial saliva of different pH. Three standard and three fake orthodontic brackets were immersed in containers containing 5 mL of artificial saliva of pH 4.9 and pH 7.8. Inductively-Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICPMS) was used to analyse the amount of metal ion released into the artificial saliva on day 1, day 14 and day 28. Statistical analysis was performed to determine the significant difference of metal ions release between two types of braces in different pH solutions. The results showed the release of 5 types of ions: aluminium, nickel, chromium, manganese and copper. Fake braces released the highest concentration of chromium, manganese and nickel ions in both artificial salivae as compared to standard braces. Brackets immersed in pH 4.9 released a higher number of ions compared to pH 7.8. This study showed that fake braces released a higher concentration of metal ions as compared to standard braces. The release of metal ions from orthodontic brackets is influenced by both time and pH.


Cost cutting has gone by many names in recent years. From "austerity" and "rationalisation" to "efficiency savings" and "savings," the health service is well used to euphemisms for "cuts." Rachel Hooke pulls up another phrase to add to this lexicon: "admin and clerical review" http://careers.bmj.com/careers/advice/In\_support\_of\_medical\_secretaries. She says, "This usually means cost …


Salmonella is considered as an important pathogen for the poultry industry, causing a lot of economic damage to the fatal disease. Consideing the importance of salmonella in food industries, research was done on it's prevalence in poultry. The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of this kind of bacteria in Zabol area. In this study, samples were taken from 100 industrial and traditional slaughtered poultry that were randomly
assigned to different areas of Zabol within a month, and they were brought to the health food laboratory of the veterinary faculty. The specimens were evaluated by culturing in Lysine decarboxylase, Salmonella-Shigella agar,
triple-sugar Iron agar, Urea broth, Mcconckey agar and Bismuth Sulfite. 50 samples were taken by industrial method of killing and 7 of them were contaminated with salmonella. 50 samples where taken by traditional method of killing 11 cases were Also infected with salmonella. According to the
dramatic developments in network and business, the earth has become a global village; and the prevalence of several epidemics of infections and salmonella poisoning in recent decades has threatened scientists with the possibility of global epidemics. Researchers are seeking to create methods for rapid and quick detection of Salmonella in food. Regarding the 18% prevalence of Salmonella in samples taken from Zabol, it is necessary to use an appropriate and planned control system to prevent further Salmonellosis
in animals and humans. Additionally, compliance with sanitation, disinfection of the bed, the control of rodents and insects, the breeding of birds and the proper vaccination program for them can be helpful to control
Salmonellosis. In general, the results of this study indicate that chickens traditionally slaughtered and presented in the form of pecking chicken in Zabol city, are likely to be under hygiene conditions and are heavily
influenced by the environment and supplies and staff of supply centers; and it's possible to decrease the contamination by respecting the principles of individual hygiene and healthy equipments.


In accordance with the various deformations of ridge waveguide apparatus in manufacture and use,adopt the finite element method to research the influence of transmission characteristic of deformation under various stress to ridge waveguide,give the interrelated formulas of characteristic parameters.By programming the text calculates the eigenvalue of triangle-ridge waveguide in different deformations,obtains the cutoff wavelength and bandwidth of waveguide deformed in different level and draws the corresponding curves,gives the corresponding field patterns and then supply reference for ridge waveguide in practical application and study.


There is a paradox in the EU's role in counter-terrorism. On the one hand, the national governments agree in principle that cooperation at the EU level is a good thing because of the cross-border nature of the terrorist threat. On the other, they are slow to give the EU the powers (such as of investigation and prosecution) and resources (such as intelligence agents and money) it would need to be truly effective in this area. Security policy goes to the core of matters of national sovereignty, and governments are reluctant to give the EU powers that could interfere with their existing laws and national practices.


From our observation in vitro, we can suggest that : a direct contact between sarcomatous cells and physiologically active yeasts appears to be necessary for the transfer of the radioactive labelling; the presence of a filter with pores of 1.2 micrometer diameter prevents passage of fragments of DNA or RNA between the cells; this transfer is a very small fact, but implies about the third of the yeasts.


During this study a methodology was developed to project growth trends of the motor vehicle population and associated oil demand and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in China through 2050. In particular, the numbers of highway vehicles, motorcycles, and rural vehicles were projected under three scenarios of vehicle growth by following different patterns of motor vehicle growth in Europe and Asia. Projections showed that by 2030 China could have more highway vehicles than the United States has today. Three scenarios of vehicle fuel economy were also developed on the basis of current and future policy efforts to reduce vehicle fuel consumption in China and in developed countries. With the vehicle population projections and potential vehicle fuel economy data, it was projected that in 2050 China's on-road vehicles could consume approximately 614 million to 1,016 million metric tons of oil (or 12.4 million to 20.6 million barrels per day) and emit 1.9 billion to 3.2 billion metric tons (or 2.1 billion to 3.5 billion tons) of CO2 each year. Although these projections by no means imply what will happen in the Chinese transportation sector by 2050, they do demonstrate that an uncontained growth in motor vehicles and only incremental efforts to improve fuel economy will certainly result in severe consequences for oil use and CO2 emissions in China.


: [ Objective ] The purpose of this paper is to reduce user distractions effectively by analyzing their reactions to various positioning accuracy of a pedestrian navigation system. [ Methods ] First, we collected users' behavior data from the simulation and controlled experiments. Then, we compared the user distraction frequencies and durations with descriptive statistics and significance tests. [ Results ] We found that users paid more attention to the orientation of the GPS, which increased the number of stopovers and reduced interactions with the APP. [ Limitations ] We could not exclude the influence of the individual factors on the results and few previous studies discussed the theoretical foundation of our study. [ Conclusions ] To reduce distractions, pedestrians should decrease their reliance on the navigation system, while the latter needs to provide more specific and comprehensive information.


Objectives: The objectives of the study were to assess the cardiovascular health risk behavior among the faculties of BPKIHS Nepal and to find out the association between the cardiovascular health risk behaviors with selected demographic variables Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study design was conducted to find out the cardiovascular health risk behavior among the faculties of B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences. A total of ninety nine samples meeting the eligibility criteria were included by purposive sampling method. Data was collected by using self-administered questionnaire method. Results: Majority of the respondents (77.8%) were of age group < 40 years, maximum of the respondents (70.7%) were male. Among ninety nine respondents, 13.1% were light smoker, 54.5% consumed alcohol sometimes,73.3% consumed high fat food sometime, 48.5 % consumed extra salt in their diet, 86.9 % felt stress sometimes. The study showed that there is significant association between cardiovascular health risk behaviors with cardiovascular disease in family of the respondents. Conclusion: Based on the study result it concludes that alcohol consumption, high fat food consumption and stress felt usually are the cardiovascular health risk behaviour commonly found among the respondents but there is no significant association between cardiovascular health risk behaviour with discipline, highest educational degree, designation, socio-demographic variables, health problems in the respondents, problems faced by the respondents within last 3 months and BMI of the respondents.


Make Rolf, Imperiale Herrschaft im Weichselland: Das Konigreich Polen im Russischen Imperium (1864-1915) (Imperial Rule in the Vistula Region: The Kingdom of Poland in the Russian Empire [1864-1917]). 532 pp. Oldenburg: De Gruyter, 2015. ISBN-13 978-3486781427. 54.95 [euro]. As the Polish historian Andrzej Nowak wrote almost a decade ago, interpretations of Russian imperial policies in the Polish lands in the 19th century have changed numerous times over the last hundred years. During the interwar period Polish historians presented the relationship between the empire and its Polish subjects as one of relentless confrontation--"Poles against the empire, and the empire against the Poles." During the Soviet period they were forced to study revolutionary ties between Poles and Russians rather than the Russian imperial regime. Even though a number of significant works analyzing Russian policy in the Kingdom of Poland have appeared in recent decades, we still lack studies that take a complex approach to Russian policy in this region. (1) Malte Rolf's monograph is important because it fills this gap. Rolf analyzes how the Kingdom of Poland (or, as it was called from 1864, the Vistula Region) figured within the mental maps of Russian officialdom, as well as the policies that St. Petersburg pursued in the region after the Rebellion of 1863 and the impact of state policies on the region's population (chapters 2 and 5). At the center of the study lies the imperial elite of the area: above all, the governors-general (subchapter 5 is dedicated to their biographies) but also officials of the education district and the civilian governors. In addition to personalities, Rolf studies several policy areas as they applied to the region--namely, censorship and confessional policy (subchapters 7 and 8, respectively)--while education receives significantly less attention, underscoring the intense interaction that occurred between the imperial government and local society in Warsaw (chapter 3) and suggesting that many of the reforms implemented in the city were possible only because of close cooperation between the sides. (2) He even concludes that "Petersburg's hegemony cannot be described simply as a hegemony of oppression and interference. Instead it was the product of a particular context, one that fundamentally affected local development" (279). One particularly effective chapter focuses on Warsaw, the "capital" of the Vistula Region, to consider the formation of the Russian community in the city. This community, which was fairly large (approximately 40,000 people in the late imperial period), included a number of Russian professors at Warsaw University, many of whom, as Rolf notes, tended to support a far more radical pro-Russian nationalist policy in the region than the imperial administration (see, e.g., 288). Thus Rolf, like other researchers, tends to highlight the differences between government ideology and the nationalist views that were prevalent within local Russian society. (3) At the same time he notes the influence of Russian nationalism on the ruling elite (10, 32, 120, 318, 421) and ultimately concludes that the more the empire's ruling elite adopted a proRussian nationalist view that saw the empire as "belonging" to the Russians, the less likely its members were to find common ground with peoples of other nationalities--Poles, in the first instance (434). Rolf analyzes both the influence of Russian nationalism on the imperial bureaucracy and the various ways in which officialdom affected society. An important observation that flows from this approach is that several government measures either backfired and hurt the regime or simply did not work. Strict censorship, for example, meant that a certain share of Polish-language publishing ended up being transferred, ironically enough, to Habsburg Galicia (422), where Poles enjoyed far greater autonomy. Rolf also outlines areas of mutual influence between state policy and antistate Polish nationalism. …


The Egyptian protest movement which brought down the Egyptian regime headed by President Hosni Mubarak, not only gripped the minds and hearts of the Egyptians, but it captured the interest of the n ...


Objective To learn the relationship between life events and anxiety,depression as well as loneliness of medical college students,and to explore how emotion influences coping styles.Materials We conducted questionnaire surveys on 210 students of a medical university in Zhejiang province by using SAS(SelfRating Anxiety Scale),SDS(Self-Rating Depression Scale),UCLA Loneliness Scale,ASLEC(Adolescent Self-rating Life Events) and a coping style scale.Results Gender,age and specialty could influence life events,emotions and coping styles of medical students.The different levels of correlation exited between the emotional states and life events as well as coping styles.Different life events led to different level of emotions,and students who had different level of emotions tended to different coping styles.At last a regression equation of life events and different emotions was established.Conclusions Negative emotions of medical students had their respective causes and characteristics,and mental health education should base on these causes and characteristics.


The new compound K3Cu3AlO2(SO4)4, representing a spin 1/2 distorted diamond chain system, was synthesized and its magnetic properties were studied by magnetic susceptibility, specific heat, and high-field magnetization measurements. Magnetic Cu2+ ions were found to form a highly one-dimensional distorted diamond chain with strong intrachain interactions. Short-range magnetic correlations were observed to develop in a two-stage process without magnetic long-range ordering by magnetic susceptibility and specific heat measurements. The exchange constant ratio J2/J1, where J2 is the magnetic interaction of the diamond backbone and J1 is the magnetic interaction of the monomers along the chain, was estimated to be 2.5, demonstrating that the magnetic ground state is composed of an alternating dimer–monomer spin-liquid phase. The absence of an M = 0 plateau in the high-field magnetization curve is also consistent with an alternating dimer–monomer model. These results strongly suggest that K3Cu3AlO2(SO4)4 is the...


This submission is based on results to date from a current ARC project concerned with food services. Malnutrition amongst older people within Australia's aged care facilities are reported to be between 30% -65% (Azad, Murphy, Amos, & Toppan, 1999; Kyle, Unger, Mensi, Genton, & Pichard, 2002; Stratton, Green, & Elia, 2003). Poor nutritional status of older people in care is not widely known nor is it a policy priority. Whilst we can expect older people to have poor nutrition as they move closer to end of their life irrespective of where they live, this differs from the prevalence of malnutrition among older Australians in care. Malnutrition discussed here refers to protein-energy-under-nutrition, rather than over-nutrition and is defined as "a state of nutrition in which a deficiency or excess (or imbalance) of energy, protein, and other nutrients causes measurable adverse effects on tissue/ body form (body shape, size and composition) and function and clinical outcome" (Elia, 2000). Food intake per se is the most important risk factor for malnutrition (Paquet, St-Arnaud-McKenzie, Ferland, & Dube, 2003). Older people's quality of life is substantially influenced by the quality of food services in long-term care Dube, as the purpose of foodservice extends beyond the provision of essential nutrients and is a mechanism for choice, control, socialization, connectedness and comfort. The findings from a nationally funded ARC project have identified the interplay and complexity of these multiple issues. submission highlights the level of malnutrition and poor nutrition Australia's aged care and suggests the following


EXAMPLES OF FLEXIBLE PAVEMENTS IN SWITZERLAND AND FINLAND ARE USED TO PROVE THAT SURFACINGS HAVING AN ADMIXTURE OF 3% BY WEIGHT OF TRINIDAD POWDER OR 2% BY WEIGHT OF TRINIDAD EPURE ARE PARTICULARLY DENSE AND RESISTANT. IT IS ESTABLISHED THAT SURFACING MIXTURES HAVING A RELATIVELY HIGH FILLER AND FINE-SAND CONTENT ARE THE MOST RESISTANT TO STUDDED TIRES, AND THAT AVERAGE SIZED PARTICLES ARE MORE AFFECTED BY THE SCRATCHING ACTION OF THE TIRES THAN COARSE PARTICLES. AN ADMIXTURE OF TRINIDAD EPURE ALSO INCREASES ADHESION OF THE BITUMINOUS BINDER. /FG/RRL/


BACKGROUND
For rotational ankle fractures with a posterior malleolus fracture (PMF), the decision to further evaluate the ankle injury with computed tomography (CT) is challenging. The objective of this study is to determine how well PMF fracture size on x-rays correlates with size on CT, and how well x-rays can predict which patients receive PMF fixation after CT review.

METHODS
This is a retrospective study of adult ankle fractures with PMFs that had preoperative radiographs and CT imaging over a 5-year period. PMF x-ray and CT measurements were recorded, and relationships between x-ray measurements and final PMF fixation plan after CT review were evaluated.

RESULTS
A total of 98 patients were identified with both x-rays and preoperative CT imaging. Pearson's rank correlation demonstrated a strong relation between PMF width percentage measured on x-ray and CT (r = 0.724). Of the 45 patients with a PMF size under 20% on x-ray, only one patient (with an apparent incarcerated fragment) underwent PMF fixation after review of the CT.

CONCLUSIONS
PMF width on lateral x-ray correlates well with CT size and is sensitive for predicting the need for dedicated posterior malleolus based on one institutional practice pattern. Below 20% fracture width on lateral x-ray, a dedicated CT rarely leads to a decision to perform PMF fixation. Limiting pre-operative CT to those with PMF width >20% could reduce CT utilization by as much as 45% without negatively affecting patient care.

LEVELS OF EVIDENCE
Level III: Diagnostic.


The distribution and density of tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) and neuropeptide Y (NPY)‐immunoreactive, sympathetic fibers and calcitonin gene‐related peptide (CGRP)‐, substance P (SP)‐, and vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP)‐immunoreactive, non‐sympathetic fibers in the pineal gland, the effects of superior cervical ganglionectomy (SCGX) on these fibers, and the location of their terminals in the pineal gland were compared between rodents and non‐rodents. A dense network of TH/NPY‐positive fibers is present all over the pineal gland. A less dense network of CGRP/SP‐ or VIP‐positive fibers occurs in the whole pineal gland of non‐rodents, but these fibers are usually confined to the superficial pineal gland in rodents. After SCGX, some TH/NPY‐fibers remain only in the deep pineal gland in rodents, whereas considerable numbers of these fibers persist throughout the gland in non‐rodents. Thus, the remaining fibers, probably originating from the brain, may be more numerous in non‐rodents. Since CGRP‐, SP‐ or VIP‐immunoreactive fibers in the pineal capsule can be traced to those in the gland, and since these fibers are ensheathed by Schwann cells, it is concluded that these fibers belong to the peripheral nervous system. However, the existence of SP‐positive central fibers cannot be denied in some species. In the superficial pineal gland of rodents, sympathetic terminals are mostly localized in perivascular spaces, whereas the parenchymal innervation by sympathetic fibers in the pineal gland is more dense in non‐rodents than in rodents. Synapses between sympathetic nerve terminals and pinealocytes occur occasionally in non‐rodents, but only rarely in the superficial pineal gland of rodents. The occurrence of the synapses may depend on the frequency of intraparenchymal sympathetic terminals. Microsc. Res. Tech. 46:265–280, 1999. © 1999 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


A partial synthesis of (-)-shinjulactone H (3) from (+)-quassin (1) required the selective manipulation of two similar O-methyldiosphenol groups. Protection of the δ-lactone in 1 as an ortho ester, selective reduction of the C-1 carbonyl group, hydrolysis of the resulting enol ether in the A ring, and catalytic hydrogenation of the O-methyldiosphenol in the C ring delivered an intermediate possessing an α-ketol group in the A ring and an α-methoxy ketone group in the C ring. Demethylation and concomitant α-ketol tautomerization in the A ring delivered (-)-shinjulactone H (3).


Abstract The present research was a preliminary examination of young Australians' mobile phone behaviour. The study explored the relationship between, and psychological predictors of, frequency of mobile phone use and mobile phone involvement conceptualised as people's cognitive and behavioural interaction with their mobile phone. Participants were 946 Australian youth aged between 15 and 24 years. A descriptive measurement tool, the Mobile Phone Involvement Questionnaire, was developed. Self-identity and validation from others were explored as predictors of both types of mobile phone behaviour. A distinction was found between frequency of mobile phone use and mobile phone involvement. Only self-identity predicted frequency of use whereas both self-identity and validation from others predicted mobile phone involvement. These findings reveal the importance of distinguishing between frequency of use and people's psychological relationship with their phone and that factors relating to one's self-concept and ...


This study examines overall family lifehabit of the lower grades in elementary school, and based on general background and food, clothing and shelter in family, it looks into relevancy with an atopic dermatitis. The participants of the study were male and female lower grade students ranged from ages 7 to 10 in Cheong-ju region; 218 patients who were diagnosed with atopic dermatitis by medical examination of dermatologists and 259 normal children who didn't have the disease and were without other skin complaints. The data obtained from the survey results are as follows: First, it is found that cesarean or induced labor increase an atopic dermatitis compared to natural childbirth (p<.05), and colostrums and breast-feeding as well as preference of meat diet instead of vegetarian affect the atopic dermatitis (p<.01). Second, there were significant differences in degrees of skin symptoms according to ages, scope of intrusion, and in the result of comparison of subjective symptoms, degrees of skin symptoms by ages. Third, in the comparison of dietary habits those who have breakfast every day have little chance to have the atopic dermatitis (p<.01), and frequent late-night meal and dining out cause the disease (p<.001). Fourth, in the comparison of housing life, those who raise pets tend to have the atopic dermatitis, and the use of an electric pad, heater, and a hot-air blower as well as the presence of electric device in children's room cause the disease; cockroach, ants, and mold also affect the mobility rate of the atopic dermatitis. It is also known that the number of washing bedclothes, ventilation of inside air, the use of hood when cooking and environment of surrounding of houses affect the rate. Therefore, the atopic dermatitis and life patterns of children have significant relations. Also, it is also necessary to foster experts in an atopic dermatitis or have institutional efforts of public institutions or regional ones to reinforce education on it so that children and parents can raise of their quality of life.


This paper aims to develop ABS test methodology for determining the effects of changes in damping capacity of shock absorber on ABS braking performance of a passenger vehicle. For this aim, the performance tests of ABS are separately conducted on wet and slippery surfaces of rough road by using three different damper stages. Thereby, the effects of all stages of damper on ABS braking performance are individually investigated. The test results show that this test methodology provides the effects of changes in damping capacity of damper on braking performance of ABS to be occurred in accordance with the changes in braking distance.


Objective To construct recombinant fowlpox virus (FPV) with foot and mouth disease virus (FMDV) and study its genetic stability and immunogenicity.Methods Insert the genes encoding capsid protein precursor P1-2A and protease 3C into FPV expression vector.Co-transfect chick embryo fibroblast (CEF) with the constructed recombinant plasmid pTUAL3CP1 and FPV 282E4 strain to obtain recombinant fowlpox virus vUTAL3CP1 by BrdU pressure screening.The vUTAL3CP1 was subcultured in CEF for 30 passages and tested for virulence and genetic stability.Immunize BALB/c mice with vUTAL3CP1 and determine serum specific antibody and neutralizing antibody.Results The target gene was amplified from vUTAL3CP1 by RT-PCR.IFA showed positive reaction of vUTAL3CP1-transfected CEF with specific antibody against FMDV .The virulence of vUTAL3CP1 was stable after subculture in CEF for 30 passages,and no deletion or variation of gene was observed. High titers of specific antibody and neutralizing antibody were induced in mice immumized with vUTAL3CP1.Conclusion Recombinant fowlpox virus vUTAL3CP1 was successfully constructed and showed good genetic stability and immunogenicity.


We have used the University of Tasmania Mt Pleasant 26-m radio telescope to investigate the polarisation characteristics of a sample of strong 6.7GHz methanol masers, the first spectral line polarisation observations to be undertaken with this instrument. As part of this process we have developed a new technique for calibrating linear polarisation spectral line observations. This calibration method gives results consistent with more traditional techniques, but requires much less observing time on the telescope. We have made the first polarisation measurements of a number of 6.7GHz methanol masers and find linear polarisation at levels from a few to 10% in most of the sources we observed, consistent with previous results. We also investigated the circular polarisation produced by Zeeman splitting in the 6.7GHz methanol maser G9.62þ0.20 to get an estimate of the line of sight magnetic field strength of 35 7mG. Additional keywords: masers — polarisation Received 2011 June 17, accepted 2011 September 12, published online 2011 October 26


In Nanjing dialect,there is a tonal modification of yangping in the compounding of "yangping + entering tone/light sound",as the same modification as that of "rising tone + entering tone/light sound",so following the logic,it is same linking mode between "yingping + entering tone" and "rising tone + entering tone",but different mode in "yingping+ light sound" and "rising tone + light sound".The result comes from the difference of light-sound linking mode and non-light-sound one,so light-sound pitch pattern has its features.The light sound in Chinese can be predicted in its tone pitch according the pitch mode.


In this paper,the management of colleges and universities the development of audio-visual archives and the status quo,pointing out that the management processes that exist in many typical questions,and finally put forward solutions to this problem of our colleges and universities aimed at the management of audio and video files with a certain degree of referential significance.


DRM systems have been implemented in the past few years by the Content Industry as the panacea against all copyright (and Intellectual Property Rights in general) infringements over the Internet. The validity of this statement shall be assessed in this analysis, identifying its strengths and record to-date and highlighting its shortcomings in an increasingly complex e-commerce (Web 2.0) environment. While doing this, particular attention shall be given to (mostly EU) Intellectual Property Law, Consumer Law, Data Protection Law, and Competition Law.


This paper presents the main elements which define and explain the market value concept. The essential criteria in evaluating any mobile or real estate property is its utility. The procedures used in the evaluation process have as common objective the definition and measurement of the utility degree for the valuated property.


The position and shape of x-ray absorption discontinuities have been used to deduce structural and chemical bonding information on model compounds of thallium and its superconducting cuprates. The L x-ray absorption spectra were recorded on a Rigaku x-ray Spectrometer and monochromatized using a flat crystal of Si (1,1,1). The background subtraction was done using Victoreen function. The normalized absorption coefficient is plotted as a function of x-ray photon energy. It is observed that the XANES of LI edge has fewer features as compared to those of LIII edge. The LII edge spectra of thallium are similar to LIII edge spectra. The LIII absorption discontinuity of thallium splits into three components whereas no splitting is observed in LI edges. Thallium LIII edge spectra show a single absorption peak for monovalent compounds whereas in trivalent compounds a weak peak followed by a shoulder on rising absorption which culminates into a strong absorption peak. The important difference between the spectra of monovalent and trivalent compounds is the shift in the inflexion point energy of LIII edges and a shift of the main absorption maximum. The x-ray absorption spectra of superconducting cuprates show similarities with the spectra of Tl2O3 suggesting the presence of Tl3+ ions in octahedral configuration in these cuprates.


Zhongguancun is early established a nd better developed Science and Tech nology Development Zone in China.Its development is imp ortant to the development of national high technology of China.The article discussed the development,problems and countermeasures of Zhongguancun based on the Perte group affection to develop Zhongguancun.


: The present work is carried out to study the field and laboratory investigation of Quaternary sediments of Manjra River near Dighul, Beed district. For this work extensive field work has been carried out in and around Dighul, Beed District. An attempt has been made to study the structural, geographical and lithological features of the sediments. The studies have found that the Deccan trap of age from Upper Cretaceous to Lower Eocene is found at the base of soil and Quaternary sediments. Samples have been collected from the field work for the laboratory investigations while carrying out the field work. The laboratory investigation includes the study of pH, sieve analysis and Granulometric studies. The studies have found that the flow regime is turbulent and it is mixture of varying size of sediments based on the nature of sediments. Beside this turbulent flow regime occurred at some places and also the flow is suddenly changed to stagnant, represented by the fine sediments. Beside this illite is the main clay mineral found in the study area. The overall investigations manifests that sediments of the study area are river transported in nature.


Electromigration testing at the wafer level under very highly accelerated stress conditions offers the potential for significant savings in cost and test time over less accelerated package-level tests. However, the extremely large current densities and high temperatures used to achieve that acceleration add uncertainties in extrapolating test results to operating conditions. Also, the possibility exists that failure mechanisms other than those of interest may be excited. Data are presented showing good correlation between wafer- and package-level electromigration test results for a particular metal system, namely, Al-Cu(2 wt.%) with a TiW top and bottom layer.<<ETX>>


Dyadic gaming experience was studied in a psychophysiological experiment where conflict structure and the presence of an artificial intelligence (AI) agent in a turn-based game were varied in four different conditions. Electrocardiographic and electrodermal activity signals of 41 same-gender dyads were recorded to study joint changes in their physiological signals. A strong physiological linkage was found within dyads in all conditions, but the linkage scores did not differentiate between conflict modes. The only significant difference in linkage between conditions was an increase when the AI agents were not present. In addition, linkage was associated with different self-report scales assessing social presence. These results suggest that social presence and physiological linkage within dyads are higher when dyads can focus on each others' actions without distractions.


The establishment of the modern Iraqi state was necessitated by wars and conflicts, although at the very beginning it was a purely internal one that spread beyond borders and became external without subsiding at the internal level. With the beginning of the coronation of King Faisal I on the throne, the problem of the treaty with Britain and the anti- The political and security situation remained unstable as well as the assassination of monarchs until the end of the monarchy. Republican rule was no more stable than the monarchy. In mid-July 1958, a new phase of the power struggle culminated in a series of coups, The most prominent of these was the internal war with the Kurds, the long foreign war with Iran and the war with the international community. 2003 was a turning point In the history of conflicts and armed conflicts in Iraqi society, the US-led invasion of Iraq has been accompanied by the absence of a central authority controlling the security situation, leading to unprecedented chaos in the country. The sons of these provinces to safe areas inside and outside Iraq It was natural that a series of effects on all these conflicts and wars, and there is no doubt that the financial effects on the Iraqi family was one of the most prominent effects, as many of the families lost their source of livelihood by the death or capture of the sole breadwinner of the family, not to mention the fragility of the security situation From the departure of a lot of capital out of the country, as well as the financial crisis that raging today the budget of the Iraqi state, which was ravaged by heavy war and security conflicts and its direct reflection on job opportunities, which fell to the lowest levels under the high prices of goods and Service.


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We read with great interest the case shared by Dr Athanasios Fountas et al . and their experience in managing a patient with parathyroid carcinoma. This is indeed a rare condition, …


Two new block copolymers containing photocrosslinkable moieties, poly(2-cinnamoyloxyethyl methacrylate)-block-poly(N-methacryloyloxyethyl N′-adamantyl urea) (PCEMA-b-PMAdU) and poly(2-cinnamoyloxyethyl methacrylate)-block-poly(methyl methacrylate)-block-poly(N-methacryloyloxyethyl N′-adamantyl urea) (PCEMA-b-PMMA-b-PMAdU) were synthesized by atom transfer radical polymerization. The structure, thermal properties, and morphology of the synthesized copolymers were investigated by 1H NMR and Fourier transform infrared/UV/vis spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis, differential scanning calorimetry, gel permeation chromatography, atomic force microscopy(AFM), and scanning electron microscopy/environmental scanning electron microscopy. 1H NMR analysis of the copolymer structure confirmed a molar fraction of adamantane units of 0.39 and of 0.66 for diblock and triblock copolymer ,respectively. Special attention was given to the effect of UV/laser irradiation and operating conditions on the block copolymers properties, which could be exploited in the development of micro(nano)structures. The degree of phototransformation of cinnamate groups was between 57 (thin film) and 84% (solution). Modifications of the polymer morphology and surface roughness were induced after laser irradiation (308 and 248 nm) with different fluences (83–203 mJ cm−2). Also, copolymers solutions of different concentrations (c: 25% for PCEMA-b-PMAdU and c: 10, 15 and 20% for PCEMA-b-PMMA-b-PMAdU) were used in electrospinning/electrospraying processes for the preparing of micro/nano particles (0.5–2 μm) and micro/nanofibers (0.6–2.6 μm), the Gaussian distribution curves confirming that the resulting products are dimensionally homogeneous.


Layer V neurons in the primary motor cortex (M1) are important for motor skill learning. Since pretreatment of either CNQX or APV in rat M1 layer V impaired rotor rod learning, we analysed training‐induced synaptic plasticity by whole‐cell patch‐clamp technique in acute brain slices. Rats trained for 1 day showed a decrease in small inhibitory postsynaptic current (mIPSC) frequency and an increase in the paired‐pulse ratio of evoked IPSCs, suggesting a transient decrease in presynaptic GABA release in the early phase. Rats trained for 2 days showed an increase in miniature excitatory postsynaptic current (mEPSC) amplitudes/frequency and elevated AMPA/NMDA ratios, suggesting a long‐term strengthening of AMPA receptor‐mediated excitatory synapses. Importantly, rotor rod performance in trained rats was correlated with the mean mEPSC amplitude and the frequency obtained from that animal. In current‐clamp analysis, 1‐day‐trained rats transiently decreased the current‐induced firing rate, while 2‐day‐trained rats returned to pre‐training levels, suggesting dynamic changes in intrinsic properties. Furthermore, western blot analysis of layer V detected decreased phosphorylation of Ser408–409 in GABAA receptor β3 subunits in 1‐day‐trained rats, and increased phosphorylation of Ser831 in AMPA receptor GluA1 subunits in 2‐day‐trained rats. Finally, live‐imaging analysis of Thy1‐YFP transgenic mice showed that the training rapidly recruited a substantial number of spines for long‐term plasticity in M1 layer V neurons. Taken together, these results indicate that motor training induces complex and diverse plasticity in M1 layer V pyramidal neurons.


Dear Sir The determination of double bond positions in monoand diunsaturated fatty acid esters has been studied by using their dimethyl disulfide (DMDS) derivatives. The double bonds are easily located, after electron ionization at 70 eV, as a result of classical cleavage between the adjacent carbons which carry the methyl sulfide (CH 3S) substituents. 1–6 If the number of methylene groups ( n1) which separate the two double bonds is less than four, a cyclic thioether is formed and the fragmentation observed permits unequivocal determination of the double bond positions in alkadienes 7–9 and esters. 10


ABSTRACT The 1847 Inquiry into General Treatment of Convicts in Hulks at Woolwich publicly exposed the prison hulk system as one that used, mistreated, and trafficked convict corpses. By focusing on the treatment of deceased convicts on board British prison hulks, this article enhances our understanding of how both the hulk system and anatomy inspectorate were administered in the years that followed the passing of the Anatomy Act. Assessing conflicts between and weaknesses within these two systems provides a unique perspective on gradual changes in public and parliamentary attitudes towards convicts, medical men, dissection, and death in the nineteenth century.


The changes in the population density of a demersal species of the North-Western Ionian Sea over spatial and temporal scales and in response to anthropogenic and environmental factors is evaluated. Biological data were collected during trawl surveys carried out from 1995 to 2006 as part of the international project MEDITS (MEDiterranean International Trawl Surveys). The density (N/km2) index was computed for a number of hauls identified by time, depth, geographic coordinates and geographical sector. A bayesian delta normal model was estimated to evaluate the spatio-temporal changes in the density of a particular species of crustacean known as deep-water rose shrimp, Parapenaeus longirostris. Model estimation was implemented using the JAGS software, specifying the zero-inflated likelihood of the population density by the "zeros trick" method. The study highlights nonlinear spatial and temporal effects and the significant influence of the Winter North Atlantic Oscillations index on the deep-water rose shrimp density distribution.


The clustering of glyphs (individual letters/characters/symbols) is typically the first step in document processing algorithms and a critical enabling technology for most historical document indexing techniques. In this work, we take a step back from current domain/language specialized research efforts to consider the problem from an agnostic perspective. In particular, we claim that, independent of the distance measure used, any method that attempts to cluster all the data is almost certainly doomed to failure. We explain this observation, and introduce a clustering method based on Minimum Description Length (MDL) that can overcome it.


Congestion levels in protected areas can be predicted by destination choice models estimated from choice data. There is growing evidence of subjects' inattention to attributes in choice experiments. We estimate an attribute non-attendance latent class–random parameters model (LC–RPL) that jointly handles inattention and preference heterogeneity. We use data from a choice experiment designed to elicit visitors' preferences towards sustainable management of a protected area in the Italian Alps. Results show that the LC–RPL model produces improvements in model fit and reductions in the implied rate of inattention, as compared to traditional approaches. Implications of results for park management authorities are discussed.


We deal with the variational study of some type of nonlinear inhomogeneous elliptic problems arising in models of so- lar ares on the halfplane R n.


e14696 Background: Intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm (IPMN) constitutes a precursor lesion for malignancy of pancreas. Genes encoding subunits of SWI/SNF chromatin-remodeling complexes like ARID1A are collectively mutated in a significant proportion of patients with pancreatic neoplasm. In the present study, we characterize the role of ARID1A in pancreatic tumorigenesis using genetic engineering mouse models. Methods: Various mouse strains were interbred to obtain pancreas-specific Arid1aflox, KrasLSL-G12D/+; Arid1aflox, KrasLSL-G12D/+; Tgfbr2flox; Arid1aflox, and various littermate control animals. Tissue microarrays were used to determine the expression of ARID1A in human pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma and IPMN. Results: Arid1a loss in pancreas of mice incurred pancreatic duct dilation and development of cystic lesions. Concomitant Kras mutation and Arid1a inactivation accelerated formation of cystic neoplasm resembling human IPMN. These lesions were reminiscent of specific subtype of IPMN given their morphology and expression pattern of mucin proteins. Histological examination further revealed the step-wise progression of these neoplasm from low-grade to high-grade dysplasia and even invasive carcinoma. TGFBR2 deletion promoted the malignant transformation of IPMN to invasive carcinoma in the background of Kras and Arid1a alterations. Analysis of human tissues consistently showed negative or low expression of ARID1A in over half of IPMN patients. Moreover, patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma also exhibited downregulated ARID1A expression, and reduced expression correlated with worse prognosis. Conclusions: We have established a preclinical mouse model of pancreatic cystic tumor closely resembling human IPMN. This is helpful for the further understanding of biology of IPMN and highlight therapeutic niches for patient tailored treatment in those with altered SWI/SNF function.


A single source of evaporation with B mixed with highly doped Si is used instead of the coevaporation of separate Si and B sources to reduce possible carbon contamination. The results of both the heterojunction or heteroface structures, however, are similar when evaporation is used. The best Voc of the heterojunction is about 460mV and no improvement in Voc in the heteroface structure is observed. Slight Voc degradation occurred. A study of the p m-Si/p c-Si structure showed a negative Voc in many cases. The interface properties between the two materials are such that instead of repelling minority carriers from the substrate carrier, collection actually occurred. Another study of cells made in the part of substrates not covered by n-Si results in performance lower than the controls. This indicates possible substrate degradation in the process.


An instrumentation radar that uses a chirp waveform to achieve high-range resolution is described. High-range-resolution instrumentation radars evaluate the target response to operational waveforms used in high-performance radars and/or obtain display of the individual target scattering mechanisms to letter understand the scattering process. This particular radar was efficiently constructed from a combination of commercially available components and in-house fabricated circuitry. This instrumentation radar operates at X-band and achieves a 4.9-in.-range resolution. A key feature of the radar is the combination of amplitude weighting with a high degree of waveform fidelity to achieve a good range sidelobe performance. This range sidelobe performance is important to avoid masking lower-level target returns in the range sidelobes of higher-level target returns.


We investigated the synthesis of aluminum oxide (AlOx) thin films using mist chemical vapor deposition (mist-CVD) from aluminum acetylacetonate (Al(acac)3) and methanol/water (MeOH/H2O) mixture (vo...


I also observed, however, that although the panelists' papers had much to say about the topics on the left of the diagram-for example, whether the course should be two or three credit hours, be compressed within a short time or spread over a semester, be offered in the first year of law school or required in later years, use traditional case analysis or rely on new forms of instruction, urge a particular moral perspective or be more agnostic, and so on-they had rather little to say about the important matter to the right. Remaining largely implicit for much of the conference was a fundamental issue: What are we trying to produce with this strong emphasis on inculcating ethical values (or at least an appreciation of ethical values) into law students? Better lawyers? How so? Nicer Lawyers? How so and why? Happier Lawyers? Happier Clients? Or is the point a better, nicer legal system? Or a better, nicer, happier society? I returned to this issue at the end of the conference by noting that even after two days of very impressive conversation, it was still unclear to me how the conference attendees would answer the


Extent: 1 performance A DVD recording of the performance was produced by Carclew. This event fostered the development of innovative and effective support structures for the production (composition and performance) of new Indigenous music by young CASM students. It also facilitated the public presentation and staging of new Indigenous music as well as innovation and development within existing and appropriate community contexts. This CASM performance at Blak Nite 07 was sponsored by - Come Out: Australian Festival for Young People Inc., Carclew Youth Arts, Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, South Australian Youth Arts Board, Arts SA/Country Arts SA, Australia Council, Bensen Family Foundation, Adelaide City Council, Home Start Finance and Network Ten. Affiliated performers - Tara Althouse, Lisa Kickett, Madeline Love, Derek Lynch, Linsi Satinie, Corey Theatre and Jacinta Wyld.


The invention provides an installation method of a full-revolving rudder propeller device with a special angle, which belongs to the installation field of ship rudder propellers, and comprises an installation stage of a cylinder body and an installation stage of the rudder propeller device, segments of a ship body are inversely arranged, a light-target stayguy is adopted to determine a positioning benchmark line, a central line of the cylinder body is positioned by the stayguy, the cylinder body is installed so as to overlap the central line of the cylinder body and the positioning benchmark line, then the segments of the ship body are positively arranged, the rudder propeller device is hoisted and installed, so a positioning point of the rudder propeller device is overlapped with the test on the cylinder body to complete the entire assembling process. By adopting the method, the rudder propeller device is positively installed, so the deformation of the ship body can be effectively reduced, the installation method has the advantages that: the installation precision is high, the method is simple to operate, the ship body is convenient to install and inspect and the like. The installation method can be widely used for the installation field of the ship rudder propeller.


THYL ALCOHOL has had widespread use E from antiquity, the oldest alcoholic drinks being fermented beverages of relatively low alcoholic content, such as beers and wines. The Arabs introduced the science of distilling into Europe in the Middle Ages, the alchemists of that time believing that alcohol was the long-sought elixir of life. It was held to be a remedy for practically all diseases, as indicated by the term "whiskey," which is derived from the Gaelic word usquebaugh, meaning "water of life."l However, the beneficial effects of alcohol have been offset by its widespread abuse, and alcoholism, both acute and chronic, is a significant problem at present.


ZHAO Shu-li' novels written in the 1940s showed his endeavor to incorporate the mother theme of abundant symbols into folk culture mentality and modern politics concepts through narration, but these elements were not in complete harmony. Such disharmony between folk thoughts and modern politics faith was like the narrative nucleus and shell, as demonstrated by the anxiety of narration and the happy ending pattern, a genre without any trace of LU Xun's style which is embodied in conflict and antimony, a mirror of the writer's conflicting mind, and which in turn gives birth to the disorganized genre in his writing.


The main aim of this didactic proposal was to offer the students the opportunity to teach the body expression content block from home due to the situation caused by COVID-19. The didactic proposal is directed to students of secondary school. The strategy used in it was the use of different applications known to adolescents such as Youtube channel, TikTok application and Moodle centers platform offered by The Andalusia Goverment, which were added to the contents of this block. After completing the didactic unit, the results was very satisfactory and was very well received by the students.